Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-27 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 23:11 -0500, Faré wrote: Because the package was delete-package'd in an unwind-protect form after loading the .asd file, and its symbols are thereafter uninterned. Then keep it, store it somewhere and perhaps delete it only when no longer referenced. I have no

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-27 Thread Robert Goldman
On 1/26/13 Jan 26 -6:12 PM, Faré wrote: I think the whole temporary package thing is a failure, and we should just have an ASDF-USER package that uses ASDF. Does anyone have any objection to having .asd files be loaded in a shared ASDF-USER rather than a temporary ASDF~D package? If you

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-27 Thread Faré
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Robert Goldman rpgold...@sift.info wrote: On 1/26/13 Jan 26 -6:12 PM, Faré wrote: I think the whole temporary package thing is a failure, and we should just have an ASDF-USER package that uses ASDF. Does anyone have any objection to having .asd files be

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-26 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 19:12 -0500, Faré wrote: I think the whole temporary package thing is a failure, and we What problems does it actually cause ? -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib signature.asc Description:

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-26 Thread Faré
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Stelian Ionescu sione...@cddr.org wrote: I think the whole temporary package thing is a failure, and we What problems does it actually cause ? It causes having to maintain this weird system, having functions and classes the symbols of which become

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-26 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 20:48 -0500, Faré wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Stelian Ionescu sione...@cddr.org wrote: I think the whole temporary package thing is a failure, and we What problems does it actually cause ? It causes having to maintain this weird system, having

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF-USER ?

2013-01-26 Thread Faré
Because the package was delete-package'd in an unwind-protect form after loading the .asd file, and its symbols are thereafter uninterned. Then keep it, store it somewhere and perhaps delete it only when no longer referenced. I have no way to know when the package is not referenced. ASDF